- Title
- Ancient Indian square roots: an exercise in forensic Paleo-mathematics
- Creator
- Bailey, David H.; Borwein, Jonathan M.
- Relation
- American Mathematical Monthly Vol. 119, Issue 8, p. 646-657
- Relation
- http://www.maa.org/pubs/monthly.html
- Publisher
- Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- This article examines the computation of square roots in ancient India in the context of the discovery of positional decimal arithmetic
- Subject
- square roots; positional arithmetic; decimal notation; India; Brahmi numerals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/940188
- Identifier
- uon:12967
- Identifier
- ISSN:0002-9890
- Language
- eng
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